The Sunday before Halloween was another big day in the garden. We had organized a pre-Halloween crafts workshop. We got pumpkins to carve and learned how to fold cool origami bats that flap their wings.
Because we had listed this event on the Parks Department website, people came from all over New York. We welcomed a family from Harlem, one from Queens, tourists from Taiwan and some of our neighbors. The weather was perfect and we all had a blast. At one point, we ran out of pumpkins and had to rush to buy more.
No further words needed, the pictures speak for themselves:
At the end of the day, we proudly displayed three pumpkins near our gates. Equipped with a battery light, they glowed every evening for a couple of weeks.
This was such a fun event that we decided to make it a tradition for every year.